God-dess Art of Ancient Greece —
Artemis
Artemis was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, chastity, fertility, and childbirth.
At the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World,
She was worshipped as a Mother Goddess and provocatively depicted as many-breasted,
a sign of Her boundless capacity to nourish life.
Multi-limbed depictions of the Goddess are also common in the East, as a way of representing their infinite virtues.
Artemis became known as Diana in the Roman pantheon.
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